>sigh< Finally managed to resolve the WiFi sitch (NetZero managed to activate the hotspot, and I’m still with them for now, since I’m still wavering between signing up with Boost or Calyx.) Which I guess is good, since my cell phone just died today.
My poor ol’ Samsung Galaxy s4 was only four years old… I suspect the charging port (and/or battery) went bad. It might be fixable, if I can find a place to do that (the ones I can walk to are closed today or don’t repair that model.) I’ve got a line on two shops to talk to tomorrow. As much as I’d like something new, the prices are too much for my budget at the moment. So I’m hoping for a fix… and glad I’ve still got net access, and phone via the house’s landline. So I’m not completely cut off from the world.
I thought I might have another battery, but I don’t have it handy. I should be able to get one off Amazon pretty easily. But, looking at the “tongue” part of the micro-USB port… it looks misaligned, as if one end has bent inward just a little. It will probably take a couple of days to get it checked out, and I can manage without it. It’s just… annoying to realize how much we come to depend on the silly little things!
If you try getting a replacement battery, try and get a set of two with their own recharger. That way you could recharge the batteries outside of the phone with the recharger, no matter the state of the USB port. (At least, that’s what I did.)
You can buy cards that you slip between the case and the battery that add wireless charging to the s4:
I’ve not tried one personally so I can’t vouch for how effective they are but the installation seems very straightforward and it’s probably cheaper than a repair…
The USB port on my Galaxy S3 got flaky a couple of years ago. I got the spare batteries and a wall charger and pretty much always have one charged and ready when the one in the phone runs low. I haven’t had to use the USB port in years, and as a bonus I’m never tethered and waiting for a charge.
I tried the wireless recharger too and it did work fine, good if your USB port is borked, but you still have to leave your phone laying on it to recharge. I prefer just switching out the battery.
(That’s the reason I’d never want one of the phones where you can’t change the battery.)
I was planning on getting some sleep tonight, seeing as I haven’t been able to get enough sleep, it’s important. But nooo… someone has to spread poisonous fumes through the ventilation, and I have to avoid the room until it’s cleared out.
I’ve had such rotten luck on replaceable phone batteries lately. Bought 2 for my Lumia before giving up that there were no decent batteries for that model.
That was a more mainstream phone so your luck may be better.
Our kitten, Potato, has a nasty penchant for playing in the toilet, whereas my kid has a bad habit of forgetting to flush properly. This morning I woke up to ‘shitty-pawed kitty’ and was NOT HAPPY.
Though Potato was probably even less happy with the resulting bath she received…
Make sure you and your kid check the toilet before sitting down, too. You don’t want a nasty surprise of realising too late that a toy (or something else Potato has gotten hold of) was abandoned there. Even more fun is when you don’t notice… And it’s amazing how much damage an obstructive Q-tip or Popsicle stick can do (and how impossible to clear it can be).
My Schnauzer’s one bad habit is Toilet paper. Fortunately, fresh off the roll is how she likes it.
If the bathroom door is left open and we go out, odds are we will see a long stream of paper from the bathroom, down the hall, into the bedroom, back to her crate.
And if you were lazy and didn’t replace the roll and just put the new roll on top of the empty dispenser. Well, that just makes snacking all the easier for her.
Do they have access to grass outside? If not it might be worth investing in some cat grass. They’ll still eat it and puke (because that’s what they’re trying to do) but it’s better on their insides.
